Research project on bird flu kick-started in VN
VGP - Việt Nam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and the US Henry Jackson Foundation Medical Research International (HJF Inc.) on November 12 launched a large scale research project on bird flu in Việt Nam.
The aim of
the research is to identify infection frequency in high-risk groups and dangerous
agents, so as to establish strategies
preventing bird flu in human beings. The project will be carried out until
September 2010.
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NIHE and HJF Inc. signed the Agreement with their partners World Bank and Armed
Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences. Besides, the National Institute
of Health and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, two
agencies of the US Department of Health and Human Services also sponsored this
project.
The cooperative project will present necessary
information in order to study the complication of different categories of influenza
so that Việt Nam and other partners all over the world will map out
better solutions to prevent and control bird flu as well as influenza epidemic,
affirmed the US Ambassador to Việt Nam, Mr. Michael W. Michalak.
He
also encouraged US health specialists to coordinate with their colleagues in
NIHE and other health research organizations in Việt
By Thùy Dung
